Prince William took the bullet train out of Tokyo on Saturday for the latest stop on his four-day tour of Japan – Koriyama, a town in Fukushima, which is still recovering from the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

On the third day of his four-day visit to Japan, Prince William dove into the nation's traditional cultural trappings as represented by the county's most iconic television show – the historical Taiga drama, which has been on the air so long his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, attended a taping of it in 1975.

Rows of small, unassuming gray headstones make up much of the tranquil Yokohama War Cemetery in remembrance of more than 1,500 Commonwealth servicemen who died in Japan as prisoners of war during World War II, or as part of the occupation afterward.